Walmart Apollo, LLC

Jackie L Guan

Jingying Zhang

Seon Ki Kim

Juan P Gomez

Described are methods and systems for estimating an optimal product pack size and on-shelf customer facing quantity of the products in view of shelf capacity limitations of the shelves at a given retail store/product distribution center, with the aim of maximizing the total net profit of the store/distribution center. The systems and methods obtain inventory-related, retail facility product storage capacity-related, and product storage/handling-related data from one or more databases and estimate the net profit of multiple variations of pack size and customer-facing quantity for each product. Then, these results are processed via various inventory optimization algorithms obtained from one or more databases to estimate the pack size and customer-facing quantity for each of the products to be stocked at the retail facility that would be estimated to result in maximum net profit for the retail facility within a given period of time.

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Bentonville, AR, United States of America

Jackie L Guan